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30</span></strong><strong><sup><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">th</span></sup></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> – July 2</span></strong><strong><sup><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">nd</span></sup></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Sponsored by Urban Geography Study Group
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Organisers: Michele Lobo and Amelia Johns (Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">PERFORMANCES OF RELIGIOSITY IN URBAN SPACES: ANXIETIES, TENSIONS AND POSSIBILITIES</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Emerging research suggests that beliefs and embodied spiritual practices rooted in specific religions are transforming urban spaces and cultures in a
manner which has wide-ranging outcomes for socio-spatial relations, political engagement, feelings of belonging and ways of living in the city (Mahmood 2005; Turner 2008; Kong 2010; Cloke and Beaumont 2013; Saunders 2013). To the extent that it might be said
that urban culture is being appropriated into religious and spiritual practice and vice versa, it is worth considering how this interplay is recasting urban space and encounters between strangers. Importantly, these encounters produce both shared and contested
meanings of urban space, particularly as urban life has often been imagined as a site where “secular visions of modernity are enacted” (Becci, Burchardt & Casanova 2012). Some commentators have envisioned the return of religion and spirituality to the public
sphere as a force which unsettles secular orderings of identities and spaces in the city, opening up ‘postsecular’ visions of urban life as well as producing everyday anxieties and tensions. In light of these ‘unsettling’ performances, new research that makes
the religious, ethical and material ‘visible from a revealing new angle’ (Sloterdijk 2013: 5) is necessary if we are to get past binaries of the sacred and profane.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">We welcome papers that draw on diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives that explore not only the anxieties and tensions, but also the possibilities
that performances of religiosity in public spaces provide in understanding transformative social change. We invite papers that address but are not limited to the following questions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">- How does the emotional and affective dimension of religious rituals and faith-based community practices impact on feelings
of belonging and political engagement in urban space among those who differ by age, gender, generation and ethnicity?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">- How can we understand sacred and profane spaces through affects and emotions?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">- What role do sacred texts/interfaith dialogue play in exploring ways of living with difference?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">- What role do places of worship and material artefacts play in understanding belonging and intercultural relations?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">- What role does cyberspace play in faith-based community activism?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">- How can innovative methodologies including participatory action research, visual techniques and creative art practices
contribute to exploring religiosity?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">- How can insights from Indigenous spiritual practices and connections to country broaden our understandings of how we might
live with religious difference in urban settings?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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March 2014 to Michele Lobo (</span><a href="mailto:Michele.Lobo@deakin.edu.au" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0563C1">Michele.Lobo@deakin.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">)
or Amelia Johns (</span><a href="mailto:Amelia.Johns@deakin.edu.au" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0563C1">Amelia.Johns@deakin.edu.au</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Becci, I., Burchardt, M. and J Casanova eds. (2013). Topographies of faith: religion in urban spaces. Boston: Brill.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Cloke, P and Beaumont, J (2013).<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> “</span></strong>Geographies of postsecular
rapprochement in the city.”</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Progress in Human Geography
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">37</span></strong>(1): 27-51</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Kong, L. (2010). "Global Shifts, Theoretical Shifts: Changing Geographies of Religion." Progress in Human Geography
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">34</span></strong>(6): 775-776.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Mahmood, S. (2005). Politics of piety: the Islamic revival and the feminist subject. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, American
Council of Learned Societies</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Saunders, R.A. (2013). Pagan places: Towards a religiogeography of neopaganism. Progress in Human Geography<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
</span></em>37(6): 786–810. </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Sloterdijk, P (2013) You Must Change Your Life: On Anthropotechnics. Cambridge: Polity Press.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Turner, B. S. (2008). Acts of Piety: The Political and the Religious, or a Tale of Two Cities. Acts of citizenship. E. F. Isin and G.
M. Nielsen. London; New York, Zed Books.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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